What is the affiliate marketing ?

[SanviMalhotra]

Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate's own marketing efforts.

[saanvikadam]

Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate's own marketing efforts.

[TomClarke]

Affiliate marketing is a revenue-sharing venture between a webiste owner and an online merchant. The website owner places advertisements on the site to either help  sell the merchant's products or to send potential customers to the merchant's website. This is done inexchange for a share of the profits.  There are three ways to earn money through this form of marketing: pay per click, pay per sale and pay per lead.

[Talukdar]

Affiliate marketing is the process of earning a commission by promoting other people's (or company's) products. You find a product you like, promote it to others, and earn a piece of the profit for each sale that you make.

[SankalpPatil]

Affiliate marketing is the process of earning a commission by promoting other people's (or company's) products. You find a product you like, promote it to others, and earn a piece of the profit for each sale that you make.

[egenius]

Calling affiliate marketing "just putting links on a website" is a serious oversimplification. Real affiliate marketing involves traffic acquisition, tracking pixels, attribution, EPC, CTR, conversion rate, and commission structures. No traffic means no clicks; no conversions means no payout.